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SPRING LAKE, N.C. -- Authorities on Saturday found the body of a missing 11-month-old girl hidden in the attic of her home.

Harmony Jude Creech had been dead for three or four weeks, Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins announced late Saturday night.

Charges were expected soon against the child's mother, Johni Michelle Heuser, Rollins said. On Saturday, she told investigators she had found the baby dead in its crib and concealed the body in the attic of her home.

"Her reasoning for such was that she was fearful," Rollins said of the 25-year-old mother of four.

Police had issued a statewide Amber Alert on Friday after Harmony's family reported her missing. The FBI assisted the Harnett County Sheriff's Department, although authorities never labeled the case an abduction. Though the body of the girl was found around lunchtime Saturday, authorities made the announcement at 9 p.m.

Bobby Jindal wins Louisiana's governor's race

BATON ROUGE, La. -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal won the Louisiana governor's race Saturday, becoming the nation's youngest governor and the first non-white to hold the state's post since Reconstruction.

Jindal, the 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, carried more than half the vote against 11 opponents. With about 87 percent of the vote in, Jindal had 53 percent with 588,002 more than enough to win outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.

"I'm asking all of our supporters to get behind our new governor," Georges said in a concession speech.

The Oxford-educated Jindal had lost the governor's race four years ago to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He won the a congressional seat in conservative suburban New Orleans a year later but was widely believed to have his eye on the governor's mansion.

Blanco opted not to run for re-election after she was widely blamed for the state's slow response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

When he takes office in January, Jindal will become the nation's youngest governor in office.

Officials propose flight scheduling limit at JFK

NEW YORK -- Delay-plagued John F. Kennedy International Airport shouldn't try to handle more than 80 takeoffs or landings per hour, substantially fewer than are now scheduled for some peak travel times, U.S. transportation officials say.

JFK now has some hours when airlines plan for as many as 100 flights, a number nearly everyone agrees is more than the congested hub can handle, even in ideal weather.

Airline officials are slated to meet with the Federal Aviation Administration this month to talk about possible reductions in the airport's schedule.

The Department of Transportation said late Friday that it had suggested an hourly limit of 80 flights as a starting point for those discussions. It also proposed a target of no more than 44 flights in any given half-hour, or 24 during any 15-minute period.